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whole valew and goodnesse of the same, as they be by 

 estima'con in deede. In sutoh sorte as is p'scribed 

 unto you by the former article. 



It 01 it is thought good that no man, that hath not full 

 ij yarde lands in his occupa'con shall yealde any 

 wheate to this prouision. Thus mutch wee thought 

 good to lett you understand that you the better con- 

 sider how the wheate may beste be reared. 



It m wee will you to give us in writing how the wheate 

 may best be charged upon the yard land and parson- 

 ages w'hout towching (as aforesaid), sutch as have not 

 ij yard lands. 



It ra that you certifie unto us, how and upon whom 

 iijs. iiijd. for every lambe assessed within your 

 hundred may beste be leauyed not towching them the 

 poorer sorte. 



It m that you certifie unto us how and of whom the 

 poultry and geese assessed upon your hundred shall 

 beste be leauyed upon sutch as have some tillage, and 

 not charged with wheate, lambes, nor stirtes, etc. 



It that you wholy together without seperating your 

 selves that no partialytie be used : be at the view of the 

 number of Acres in every man's occupa'con : Dated 

 at Woodcott,* the xvth April, 1575. 

 Your frendes, 



"William KingsmilLt 

 John Thornburrow. 



* The old manor- house at Woodcott has long been occupied by the farmer 

 of the lands, bat retain* some evidences of its former importance. It com- 

 mands a magnificent view over a wide range of open country. Some years 

 since a priest's hiding place was discovered behind a stack of chimneys, 

 accessible only by removing the floor boards in one of the rooms. A steel 

 kitchen spit, 10 ft. in length was also dng up near the house. A relic of the 

 days when sheep were roasted whole, and of the "fine old English gentleman, 

 who, though he feasted all the great he ne'er forgot the poor. 



f Sir William Kingsmill, knt. of Sydmonton, who was then the owner of 

 Woodcott. 



I John Thornborongh, Esq., of the family of this name of Thornbnrgh, co. 

 York. He was one of the commissioners for masters and for disarming 

 recusants, high-sheriff of Hants, 1578, and is described as of "Shetesden," or 

 as otherwise entered "Spaddesden," co. Hants. Probably Shoddesden, in the 



Brian of Kimpton, near Andover. By Margaret, daughter of Sir John 

 .ngsmill, of Sydmonton, he was father of many children, amongst them Sir 

 John, Edward, Henry, Frances, and Katharine, (who died in 1650), wife to 

 Alexander Dyer. 



